In Stanzas on Freedom and Free Labor, Harper and Lowell use symbolism to express their ideas that if you are not helping fight slavery, you are against it.

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Review:
-Stanzas on Freedom
  • How can you be free if your brothers are not free themselves? Slaves not worthy to be free.
  • Mothers who hear of others being enslaved and don't help are not fit to be mothers.
  • You can not be truly free unless you are helping others find their freedom and truly want their freedom.
  • Those who don't speak out are slaves themselves.
-Free Labor
  • She doesn't wear a garment that has been made with the life of the slaves.
  • Those who do wear the garments made by them only strengthen the oppression in slavery.

Lens:
-Stanzas on Freedom and Free Labor
  • If you are not against slavery, you are helping it.

Significance:
  • These works were both written to protest slavery when it was still going on.

Connections:
-SOF
  • Transcendentalist (everyone is connected)
-Free Labor
  • Civil Disobedience